THAI TEACHER WORKSHOP SUCCESS
Our Teacher Workshop Team have just returned from our programme in Northern Thailand this summer and the feedback they received from the schools and Thai teachers who attended has been
GLOBAL COMMUNITY LINKS PROGRAMME
VESL and VeSSS have submitted an application to gain recognition from the Global Community Links Programme run by the British Council and the DFID. Our hope is to qualify for
MEETING WITH SRI LANKAN MINISTER FOR PEACE
VESL’s trustees were extremely honoured to receive a formal request to meet with Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Sri Lanka’s Minister for Peace, earlier this week during his visit to the UK.
WORLD OF DIFFERENCE INTERNATIONAL GRANTS
We’d like to thank everyone who has been in touch to enquire about applying to work for VESL via Vodafone’s World of Difference International grant programme. Vodafone aims to select 8 winners
NEW LINK WITH KERALA BASED NGO
VESL is very pleased to have formed a new link with the Venad Social Service Society (VeSSS) in India. VeSSS is based in Trivandrum in Kerela and works with traditional
MOSQUITO NETS FOR HILL TRIBE SCHOOL
During Tom Harrison’s (VESL Programme Director) project visit to Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand he was able to deliver nearly £350 to one of the rural hill tribe schools to
TEACHER WORKSHOP PROGRAMME GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT
We are extremely pleased to announce that a new Teacher Workshop Programme will take place inNorthern Thailand during August 2010. We have been working with the education authorities in Thailand to identify
PAST VOLUNTEERS HELP RAISE MONEY FOR PROJECTS
We would like to thank Elizabeth Munns (VESL Volunteer 2007) for all her fundraising efforts over the last year to help raise money towards a project working in rural communities
CANNING TRUST GRANT for INDIAN PROJECT
VESL recently presented an application to the Canning Trust to help secure a school house for an orphanage that we work with in Northern Andhra Pradesh in India. We are overjoyed to
NEW PARTNERSHIP UNIVERSITY OVERSEAS CHALLENGE PROJECTS
We couldn’t be happy to announce that both Edge Hill University and Anglia Ruskin University have now signed up run partnership projects for their students in Thailand in July/August 2010